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The Cooperstown Art Association has announced that the deadlines for artisans to register for its annual outdoor art event on Labor Day Weekend, Fine Arts on the Lawn, have been extended until Friday, August 25. Exhibitors on the front porch must be up-to-date CAA members; artists who are non-members can reserve space on the front lawn. For more information, visit www.cooperstownart.com/fine-arts-on-the-lawn.html or e-mail gallery@cooperstownart.com.…
The Cooperstown Art Association will hold an opening reception for two new exhibitions on Friday, August 18 from 5-7 p.m. “Made in New York: The Art of Wood” is the 28th biennial Fine Craft Invitational show devoted entirely to woodworking, including both functional and nonfunctional creations made with local and exotic woods. Featuring local and regional artisans and craftspeople, this year’s show in Gallery A will include turned and carved items, sculpture, furniture, lighting, jewelry, vessels, and more.…
Internationally active artist Helen Quinn will present a free artist’s talk on Thursday, August 10 at 6 p.m. at the Art Garage, 689 Beaver Meadow Road, just outside of Cooperstown. Quinn’s program is offered as part of the current show, “Passages: Creatures and Curiosities.” The three-person exhibit also includes work by Ava Fedorov and Petey Brown.…
Wednesday, July 12 saw the opening of the month-long presentation of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” at Fenimore Art Museum, which will be presented every Wednesday and Thursday until August 10. The play is being performed by the Glimmer Globe Theatre players under the direction of Michael Henrici who, with wife Danielle, has organized and presented many Shakespearean plays in the past, including last year’s “Romeo and Juliet.”…
After a three-year hiatus, the Stagecoach Run Art Festival got underway once more over the weekend of July 1-2. The event is so-named because the majority of exhibits are located along a route once known as the Catskill Turnpike, which ran from Catskill in Greene County westward to Unadilla and on to places north. Upwards of 50 artists displayed their works in their homes, studios, galleries, barns and in other venues in the Village of Franklin and its neighboring hamlet,…
An experience in the fusion of astronomy and classical music will be offered at Hyde Hall on Sunday, July 30. The concert, titled “Celestial Melodies,” will be performed by the Musicians of Ma’alwyck. It will begin indoors at 7 p.m. and will end outdoors, weather permitting, with the viewing of a meteor display.…
True fans of the horror genre will be familiar with Troma Entertainment, Lloyd Kaufman, and Rocko Zevenbergen, collectively known for such delightfully disturbing B movie cult classics as “The Toxic Avenger,” “Class of Nuke ‘Em High” and the more recent “I Need You Dead!” Here in Otsego County, a local man is leading a team of experts as they develop special effects for Zevenbergen’s latest movie in an East Springfield garage.…
Passages: Creatures & Curiosities,” the high summer show of the Art Garage season, will kick off on Thursday, July 20 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. with a reception to celebrate the art of Petey Brown, Ava Fedorov, and Helen Quinn. All three artists have regional roots: Brown divides her time between studios in Gilbertsville and SoHo; Fedorov grew up in Schenevus and now teaches in Boston; and Quinn divides her life between Jamaica, Queens and, in the summer, Treadwell.…
The John Colonna Trio will perform on Thursday, July 20 at Marcus Villagrán’s Dunderberg Gallery, 188 Marion Avenue in Gilbertsville. The trio—pianist Colonna, Kenji Tokunaga on bass and Joel Proctor on drums—has been described by doNYC.com as “a group of virtuosic musicians who channel the sound of classic jazz into modern feels like funk, rock, and gospel.”…
Iron String Press’ own Wriley Nelson is among the actors in Fenimore Art Museum’s Glimmer Globe Theatre production of William Shakespeare’s final fantastical adventure, “The Tempest,” which kicks off tonight at 7 p.m. Performances take place on Wednesday and Thursday evenings through August 10, set against the backdrop of Otsego Lake in the museum’s Lucy B. Hamilton Amphitheater. …